And this evening, there will be presents. And coffee.
Well, after feeling selfish for only bringing a thermos of coffee for myself last party (I forgot there were other coffee-drinkers in the group), I have made arrangements with our dark ally, Tim Hortons.
I'll be bringing a 40 cup thermal carafe-thang along with cups and all the fixings to the party this evening! I know this may at least please plonq, who has previously floated the question to whether Tim's actually spikes their coffee with some addictive substance.
The week was apparently a bad week for large appliances, as both my dryer and oven seem to have taken a turn for the worse. I'm hoping that both with be just minor fixes; a belt for the dryer and a new lower element for the oven (no Christmas baking!!??!?!!). Of course, I have to figure out where to buy an element... but that should be a minor thang. Hopefully.
I do have enough in savings to out-right purchase one new appliance, but not two. Losing major appliances seems to go in waves for me, too. So maybe I should considering this a warning!
The last week has been pretty busy with normal Christmasy-style stuff, plus Thomas has flown in from Vancouver (unfortunately for his Grandma's funeral), so we hit a lot of the old haunts and had a grand time. On Thursday night Thomas wanted to get some photos developed so we wandered off to Blacks at Polo Park. During the wait we went to EB Games and Thomas bought me an early Christmas present.
I had originally picked Star Wars Rogue Squadron II from one of the used racks, but after 15 minutes of hunting the staff couldn't seem to find the disc for it and figure that they've already sold it with the wrong box. Go them! They offered to sell me the Jedi Knight game that was in the case, but I'm sort've funny about having the right box for the right game... and manuals. And the fact that if I ever tried to re-sell it later... well, yeah.
So instead I went to a game Thomas had recommended but I hadn't heard of before, The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age. Thomas also had them throw in a 14-day trial for World of Warcraft.
I'll probably try both over Christmas vacation, and be thuroughly doomed. I've been avoiding WoW as I know about my addictive personality, and can see that being my undoing! I've been fighting the good fight, but it seems the odds are starting to stack against me.
After I came home I was talking to Amanda and told her what Thomas got me. She thought that was pretty nice of Thomas, but now she has to take back the game she bought me! Yeah, even though I never really knew about that game previously, Amanda thought it would be a good choice and had bought it for me. Alas, it's been one of those Christmases of purchases and returns for both me and Amanda (I had to take back 2 presents that I got for her already).
I know it was truly accidental, but I still feel bad that it's caused the inconvenience. But, c'est la vie, I s'pose.
We move on, and upwards, and stuff!
I've also been trying to expand my knowledge of other things that're going on around this time of year, especially things like Hanukkah, which I've always heard about but for whatever reason never really took the time to understand. It's never too late to be work on un-ignoranting myself, is it?
This little bit of research also prompted me to write the woman who assembles our corporate calendar and let her know that the Hanukkah information on corporate calendar (that we give out as promotional material) not only is on the wrong dates, but can't appear twice in one month just because you've decided to use two alternate spellings!!
I think the only issue I have now with knowing a bit more about the tradition is that my brain keeps mashing movie titles together so that "I <3 Maccabees" keeps rattling through my head.
I'll be bringing a 40 cup thermal carafe-thang along with cups and all the fixings to the party this evening! I know this may at least please plonq, who has previously floated the question to whether Tim's actually spikes their coffee with some addictive substance.
The week was apparently a bad week for large appliances, as both my dryer and oven seem to have taken a turn for the worse. I'm hoping that both with be just minor fixes; a belt for the dryer and a new lower element for the oven (no Christmas baking!!??!?!!). Of course, I have to figure out where to buy an element... but that should be a minor thang. Hopefully.
I do have enough in savings to out-right purchase one new appliance, but not two. Losing major appliances seems to go in waves for me, too. So maybe I should considering this a warning!
The last week has been pretty busy with normal Christmasy-style stuff, plus Thomas has flown in from Vancouver (unfortunately for his Grandma's funeral), so we hit a lot of the old haunts and had a grand time. On Thursday night Thomas wanted to get some photos developed so we wandered off to Blacks at Polo Park. During the wait we went to EB Games and Thomas bought me an early Christmas present.
I had originally picked Star Wars Rogue Squadron II from one of the used racks, but after 15 minutes of hunting the staff couldn't seem to find the disc for it and figure that they've already sold it with the wrong box. Go them! They offered to sell me the Jedi Knight game that was in the case, but I'm sort've funny about having the right box for the right game... and manuals. And the fact that if I ever tried to re-sell it later... well, yeah.
So instead I went to a game Thomas had recommended but I hadn't heard of before, The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age. Thomas also had them throw in a 14-day trial for World of Warcraft.
I'll probably try both over Christmas vacation, and be thuroughly doomed. I've been avoiding WoW as I know about my addictive personality, and can see that being my undoing! I've been fighting the good fight, but it seems the odds are starting to stack against me.
After I came home I was talking to Amanda and told her what Thomas got me. She thought that was pretty nice of Thomas, but now she has to take back the game she bought me! Yeah, even though I never really knew about that game previously, Amanda thought it would be a good choice and had bought it for me. Alas, it's been one of those Christmases of purchases and returns for both me and Amanda (I had to take back 2 presents that I got for her already).
I know it was truly accidental, but I still feel bad that it's caused the inconvenience. But, c'est la vie, I s'pose.
We move on, and upwards, and stuff!
I've also been trying to expand my knowledge of other things that're going on around this time of year, especially things like Hanukkah, which I've always heard about but for whatever reason never really took the time to understand. It's never too late to be work on un-ignoranting myself, is it?
This little bit of research also prompted me to write the woman who assembles our corporate calendar and let her know that the Hanukkah information on corporate calendar (that we give out as promotional material) not only is on the wrong dates, but can't appear twice in one month just because you've decided to use two alternate spellings!!
I think the only issue I have now with knowing a bit more about the tradition is that my brain keeps mashing movie titles together so that "I <3 Maccabees" keeps rattling through my head.